"They took a long time getting the mikes set up, and then he started singing 'Maggie's Farm.' It's a great song, one of his best." Folk singer Pete Seeger was watching from backstage. "I'd like to get the sound of the album that we just recorded here at Newport, and Mike Bloomfield's here with his band and you're here and I figure between the two of that, we could put something together and, you know, play a few songs.' So I said, `That sounds good.'"ĭylan, a skinny 24-year-old with wild, frizzy hair, took the stage, band in tow. Just a few weeks before the festival, Kooper had played organ on a song for Bob Dylan's new album, "Highway 61 Revisited."īackstage at Newport, Dylan asked Kooper if he'd be willing to play with him that night. Here's some passes and come see us tonight.'" "And then I was curtailed by Albert Grossman, Dylan's manager. On Sunday, June 25th, 1965, Al Kooper and his wife were ambling the grounds of the Newport Folk Festival, greeting friends and taking in the sounds, something they did every summer. Bob Dylan at a press conference in London.
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